The latest edition of Fresh Tracks features lo-fi psych pop from Pennsylvania to pop rock from Seattle; alt. rock in Los Angeles to cinematic alt. folk from Minneapolis. There are some really amazing tracks here from artists and bands worth checking out. You can stream the playlist below or download MP3s.
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Mock Sun – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Red Kitchen – Seattle, Washington
Beach Gossip – Los Angeles, California
Navigation Day – Leeds, England
Magi – Indianapolis, Indiana
Day Hustle – Boston-via-Brooklyn
Ryan Lee – St. Paul, Minnesota
Night Talks – Los Angeles, California
Lionel Lodge – Vienna, Austria
Marah in the Mainsail – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jack Of None – Manila-via-Chicago
Alice Sweat Alice – Kansas City, Missouri
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Mock Sun – “Soup Spoon”
From the old mining district of northeastern Pennsylvania comes Mock Sun, a lucid, ever-evolving, psychedelic lo-fi pop duo “born out of desperation” when two young Wilkes-Barre musicians, Mark Wohl and Jami Kali, “became dangerously dissatisfied with the hum drum dumb-dumb routine of the small coal-mining town from which they sprouted.”
The result was the impressive debut album, Hungry Mother, that dropped in 2013, followed by two EPs and two live albums. In 2014, the duo morphed into a quartet with the addition of Mark Dimirco and DJ Tasselmyer.
The band just dropped the new single, “Soup Spoon,” a dreamy, surreal psych jam that we have enjoyed since we first got ears on it. We are looking forward to the album release of Post-Hypnotic this summer – no official date set as of yet.
MP3: “Soup Spoon” – Mock Sun from Post-Hypnotic